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After nearly four decades as an Apple fanatic, OWC Founder and CEO Larry O\u2019Connor has decided to \u201cgo PC.\u201d On April 31st, the company will make an extraordinary move when they shut down macsales.com and launch pcsales.com<\/a>. The new website will be devoted to OWC\u2019s all-new product line, focusing exclusively on enhancing, upgrading, and expanding all things PC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, presumedly, is because PCs can still be enhanced, upgraded, and expanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It was a business decision, and I felt it was time for a change,\u201d<\/em> said Mr. O\u2019Connor. \u201cOWC has been in the Apple DIY space for 32 years, and people have been telling me for years that I need to be a little more PC. I know it comes as a surprise to many, but switching teams well into one\u2019s career isn\u2019t unheard of.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s true. Remember Justin \u201cI\u2019m a Mac\u201d Long from the iconic Mac vs. PC<\/strong> ads of the early 2000s? He’s flipped<\/a> and is now a spokesperson for Intel. Or how about Verizon’s “can you hear me now” guy? Sprint. Yep \u2013 it happens all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making the Move<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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When asked about making a move to PC, Mr. O\u2019Connor said, \u201cIt was an easier transition than I imagined since all my Thunderbolt gear, keyboards, and mice plug and play with today\u2019s PCs. And OWC\u2019s SoftRAID<\/a> for Windows made it easy to connect my Mac-formatted OWC RAID drives seamlessly to the Windows 10 PC for immediate access to my data. I never thought I’d go from playing with Windows to making it my primary.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larry started out tinkering at a very early age. Pulling apart computers, upgrading what he could, putting them back together, breaking them down again, tweaking and tuning as his heart desired. And he misses it. A lot.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSure, no one supports our Thunderbolt solutions better than Apple & Mac,”<\/em> says Larry, “but I think making PCs work better is the challenge I need. Macs just don’t have the excitement of having enough things to fix. And while Macs aren\u2019t 100% perfect either, it\u2019s Windows that I know will never leave me time to spare.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Well said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“While OWC has long served a substantial PC\/Windows and Linux customer base, the tables will be turned, and they will no longer need to go to a site with \u2018Mac\u2019 in the name for their technology needs. So now we want to make Mac users go to a site with PC in the name.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Always the consummate businessman, OWC Larry reminds us that \u201cgreat upgrades, memory, docks, external storage, SSDs, GPUs, Mac computers\u2014and more\u2014can be found while they last<\/strong> at MacSales.com<\/a>!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about this astonishing development at pcsales.com<\/a>. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Note:<\/strong> In a related story, OWC Larry also bought an Android Phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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